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Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.
Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
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The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.
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The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.
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The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.
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The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.
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And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.
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[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.
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Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!
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Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.
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Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.
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When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.
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... painting a picture is like fighting a battle and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.
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It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.
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The privilege of a university education is a great one the more widely it is extended the better for any country.
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